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Poster:	srtg83	Date:	February 10, 2011 07:52:26pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: Tense times in Tahir Square

I am not sure that I like the producer/consumer analysis. I am a Realist when it comes to these geopolitical matters. This is still just the fallout from the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. The Arabs were left unprotected when the Soviet influence disappeared in the Middle-East with the Americans pushing in to clear the void. History may still be kind to the Bushes when this is all done. The democratic aspiration of the people is also understandable resulting from the potent mix of tremendous wealth, increased higher education, corruption and severe poverty. Throw in a good dose of technology to bring it all together and here we are with Egypt ready to explode. Here is a good summation of events thus far:

"The protests that have shaken the Egyptian political system and the political landscape of the Middle East were partly inspired by the example of Tunisia, where street protesters toppled the president on January 14. Eight weeks ago to the day on Friday, a young man in the provincial city of Sidi Bouzid set himself alight on the main square in protest after police confiscated the vegetable cart with which he was trying to scrape a living. The wave of anger which Mohamed Bouazizi set in motion across the Arab world has drawn comparisons with the toppling of communist leaders in eastern Europe in 1989. Governments from Morocco to Yemen have made concessions to people unhappy with rising prices and unemployment and a lack of political freedoms."


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Poster:	micah6vs8	Date:	February 10, 2011 08:22:09pm
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: Tense times in Tahir Square

Who is the quote from?
I kinda, sorta agree with your analysis. Not enough daylight to make a stink. Regardless of what one thought at the time, I think to discount a shaky, but working democracy in Iraq does not lead to a realistic portrait of the Arab world.
The most serious uprising, of the many that have happened in the last year, was last June in Iran. We really had an opportunity there to help effect change. Now, they are still executing protesters, or the renamed, enemy of the state and Allah.
Graphic video,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmgZYtkpiYo&;feature=related